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"Political cowardice" … David Williamson.THE playwright David Williamson has attacked the nation's "huge" spending on sports while a "pittance" is spent developing the next Cate Blanchett or Geoffrey Rush.
Williamson has also taken aim at the funding being "ripped" from TAFE, costing 800 teaching positions in NSW alone, with fine arts "predictably" among the casualties, while Melbourne was set to lose a valuable creative arts program.
"The overall cost of our Olympic gold medals was in excess of $17 million per medal, but that was thought to be not nearly enough investment by many who oversee our elite sports institutions," said Williamson, delivering the 2012 National Tertiary Education Union lecture in Fremantle.
"Why as a society we think it's legitimate to spend huge amounts on our sportsmen and women, but seemingly don't think the relative pittance we spend on developing a potential Cate Blanchett or Geoffrey Rush is as justifiable, has to say something about our national and political priorities."
The former Sydneysider, whose new play Happiness premieres at the Ensemble in May and his play Rupert at the Melbourne Theatre Company in August, now lives in Queensland, where "the barbarians are not just at the gate, but in power".
Williamson, in his lecture Living Dangerously: The Future of Creative Arts Education in Australian Universities, said the new Premier, Campbell Newman, had transformed the state into a "developers' paradise", while abolishing the Queensland Premier's Literary Awards.
But the playwright also took aim at other states: in Victoria, the Baillieu government had sliced $35 million from Swinburne University of Technology's budget as part of a general $290 million cut to TAFE in Victoria.
"Swinburne is being forced to plan the closure of its Prahran campus, home to its creative arts program, which in terms of graduates being employed in the arts industry, has been one of the most successful in the country," he said. "Where are our future cameramen, directors, set and lighting designers, choreographers and make-up artists for television, film and stage meant to spring from? It seems, in that phrase invented by Shakespeare, the greatest artist of all time, 'thin air'."
In NSW, meanwhile, some 800 TAFE jobs are "slated to go and the casualties, predictably, are fine arts and ceramics".
"Creative courses on university campuses are under just as much threat, but here it's not the bloody-minded anti-arts mentality of conservative state governments that's to blame but the gradual python squeeze of less and less university funding for which the federal government must take the blame," he said.
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"Funding levels for higher education have dipped to just 0.7 per cent of gross domestic product as against the OECD average of 1 per cent."
"Skimping" on higher education was partly to do with "political cowardice", he said.
"It's OK to have white papers on us integrating ourselves with Asia in the 'Asian century' and tell us we're all to learn Asian languages, as long as there are absolutely no plans to actually do anything."
Yet the arts sector contributes $30 billion a year to GDP, more than agriculture, forestry and fishing combined, he said.
"Funding in a university flows from the number of students you teach and how effective you are as a research institution," he said. "Many faculties have responded to funding pressures by decreasing the staff student ratio."
Williamson said the new national curriculum would be weakened by a lack of funding.
The original release of this article first appeared on the website of Hangzhou Night Net.


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Taught by Tony MacAlpine in Tony MacAlpine Master Course seriesLength: 2:14Difficulty: 3.5 of 5
Dig into the style and technique of one of the most accomplished and creative guitarists of his era! Ever a true clinician, Tony MacAlpine breaks down over 30 song passages from his extensive catalogue while offering pointed instruction on melodic development, composition, soloing, picking and legato techniques and more!
Lesson 1
Get a taste of what to expect from Tony's Master Course.Length: 3:39 Difficulty: 0.0 FREE
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Sit back and relax before the mayhem begins! Tony talks about his career and music, and offers some solid advice for the aspiring musician in us all.Length: 22:46 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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Using a sequential idea repeated on different sets of strings, Tony shares another idea that requires not only some strategic picking, but also some key hammer-ons, in order to make it flow correctly.Length: 2:52 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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While the drums and rhythm guitar are driving like a freight train, Tony throws this clean, chorus laden tone over the top, creating a rich texture that he likes to refer to as "icing on the cake."...Length: 2:14 Difficulty: 0.0 Members Only
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Tony has a way of using rhythm and repetition along with complex harmony structures to create things that stick in your ears. There are some seriously weird harmonic ideas going on in this melody. In an...Length: 3:17 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Let's rewind a bit and check out the opening rhythm to this fascinating piece. Combining multiple techniques, including muting and hammer-on's, this line feeds off of and accentuates the bass and drum...Length: 2:26 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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When applying altered tonalities, you're intentionally trying change what the normal flow of the music would be. In essence, you're in one tonal space, but you're borrowing notes from where the song...Length: 3:09 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Tony first outlines the chord progression and explains how it inspired the solo he plays over a passage from his popular song "Dream Mechanism." He drives home the point that, for him, some of the...Length: 2:31 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Upon first glance, this line looks and sounds like a raking or sweeping idea. Closer examination by Tony reveals that it can be more fluidly done with legato playing. These arpeggios are what tie the broader...Length: 3:01 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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There's a lot to unpack in this flurry of notes. You'll be employing three-note-per-string sequencing, precision alternate picking and rapid position shifts. The position shifts actually create an...Length: 2:14 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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You'll get to stay in position, play in harmonic minor and utilize some punchy triplet ideas within an otherwise slower sequence. The rhythmic variance is challenging from a picking perspective and it...Length: 2:36 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Tony breaks down a run from his song "Poison Cookies" that has garnered many questions since he introduced it on his album Concrete Gardens. It goes by so fast live and on the record, that it appears...Length: 2:36 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Continuing with his glimpse into the song "Poison Cookies," Tony looks at the build up to the solo section as an example of repeating rhythmic motifs that move from chord to chord over a progression....Length: 2:53 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Tony examines the chorus outro into the run from his song "Poison Cookies." When this passage is played live, it is played with multiple guitar players. Tony discusses the keys to locking in with other...Length: 2:55 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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This catchy line is sure to have you coming back for more. Built off of the open B string, the straightforward rhythm and melodic movement just feel good under your fingers. The string skipping and speed...Length: 2:00 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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With lines like this, many guitar players default to sweep picking. Tony asserts that in this case, these arpeggios really need to be approached with alternate picking in order to get the proper note separation....Length: 3:05 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Get a crash course in melodic development using what Tony calls a "mini ballad" or a song within a song. The idea is that you create a melodic phrase that stands apart from the rest of the song and...Length: 3:50 Difficulty: 3.5 Members Only
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Whole tone scales are notoriously difficult to apply. Tony shares a great example of incorporating this scale in his tune "Epic" by emphasising other, more melodic notes not included in the whole tone...Length: 1:58 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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The title of this track says it all. The long ringing tones of this rhythmic line are nothing short of epic. While this piece is relatively easy, some of the muting could present a challenge. The harmonies...Length: 3:20 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
Lesson 25
Tony uses neighbor tones in this lick to create a smooth, vocal-like line.Length: 3:36 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 26
Tony teaches portions of the rhythm section from Napolean's Puppet.Length: 2:28 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Taking parts from Napolean's Puppet, Tony teaches a line that utilizes the whammy bar.Length: 3:29 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 28
Tony teaches a legato line taken from Napolean's Puppet.Length: 2:07 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
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Tony teaches part four from Napolean's Puppet. This one will require a good level of dexterity and knowledge of alternate picking to accomplish.Length: 1:39 Difficulty: 4.5 Members Only
Lesson 30
Tony teaches the solo from King's Rhapsody which encompasses multiple lines simultaneously.Length: 3:38 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 31
Tony teaches Line 2 of the King's Rhapsody solo which encompasses an ensemble like sound.Length: 2:22 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 32
Tony uses an octave based melody in lesson 32 to teach the third line of the King's Rhapsody Solo.Length: 2:44 Difficulty: 4.0 Members Only
Lesson 33
Tony MacAlpine puts on a live concert and then answers your questions. Come see amazing live performances of his songs, and hear his distilled wisdom. Tony truly is one of the best guitar players in history.Length: 1:49 Difficulty: 3.0 Members Only
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Certificate module
Note: You are currently viewing documentation for Moodle 1.9. Up-to-date documentation for the latest stable version is available here: Certificate module.
The Certificate module creates PDF certificates/diplomas for students of the course and is completely customizable. You can add borders, watermarks, seals and even show grade information. A contributed module, it was originally created by Hugo Salgado, July, 2004, updated by David T. Cannon, July, 2005 to use FPDF and include printing grades, updated and currently maintained by Chardelle Busch to include backup/restore, types, reporting, emailing, unicode support, etc.
There are different certificate modules for 1.6 and 1.7. They are not compatible. These instructions were written for 1.6. Chardelle Busch has made sure Certificate is updated for every version through 1.9. The 1.9 version has a few more printing features and has expanded the number of activities upon which the teacher can set conditions for issuing a certificate to a student.
- 1 Certificate examples
- 2 Certificate companions
- 3 Installing
- 4 Settings
- 5 Tips & Tricks
- 6 Customizing
- 7 Tips and Tricks
- 8 See also
Certificate examples
Certificate companions
Certificate Site-wide Report
As of February 2008, there is a Certificate Site-wide Report which can be added in Moodle 1.9, as a supplement. This is an add-on to the certificate module--if installed, you will have an option when creating a certificate to send that certificate's info to the report. An optional block is included that provides a link to the report. Students will see a list of all received certificates. Administrators (or those who have the capability of viewing site reports) will see a link on the Certificate Report page to view/download a report of all students' received certificates. To install: Place the certificates folder in your root (main) moodle folder and upload to your server. Place the my_certificates block folder under your moodle/blocks folder, upload to your server and click on the Administration>>Notifications link to install.
Certificate Verification Block
A companion to the Certificate module for Moodle 1.9. This is a block with a form for entering a given certificate code for verification. The verification page shows the student name, course name, date received and grade (if a grade is printed on the certificate). The certificate code can be printed on a certificate.
This feature is useful when a Registrar, supervisor or administrator wishes to verify that the printed certificate is valid for that student. To install: Place the verify_certificate block folder under your moodle/blocks folder, upload to your server and click on the Administration>>Notifications link to install.
- Download and Unpack the Certificate zip file in a temporary area,
- Copy the "certificate" folder to your moodle mod folder located for example at yourhost\moodle\mod . This will include folders db, lang and all the subfolders located under pics.
- Note: It is not necessary to move the lang file into the Moodle lang folder, the certificate lang folder can stay in the mod/certificate folder.
- Go to your Moodle, and click on the Notifications link in the administation block. Moodle knows something has been added and it will proceed to install the certificate module.
See also: Installing_contributed_modules_or_plugins in MoodleDocs.
These instructions are for a certificate that works with Moodle 1.9.x . Earlier versions of Certificate will have similar instructions. This is a short version which is repeated in mod/certificate/mod that is availabe as a help button at the bottom of the certificate settings page.
Put in your certificate name. This will appear on the certificate. Add an introduction for students which will appear above the "Get your certificate" button.
Issue options
- Email Teachers - Yes or No.
- Email Others - add email addresses, separated by a comma.
- Delivery - should students open in a new window, force them to download, or be emailed certificate
- Save Certificates - No or Yes. If emailed you must save. "Yes" also allows reprinting of a certificate. "No" will force the certificate to be re-created every time it is viewed.
Locking options
Before a student can receive a certificate, what must they do? These are similar to Conditional Activities which are in Moodle 2.0. Be careful with these settings.
- Required course grade - No or pick an over all course grade from 100% to 1%
- Minimum required minutes in course - Type in the minutes, a 0 means this is not a requirement.
- Dependent activities - Certificate also has a built in conditional activity setting.
- Linked Activity - Select the dependent activity from the pull down list. For example you may have a Quiz that is used as a final.
- Required Grade - No or pick an activity grade from 100% to 1%
- Add another linked activity option - A button which will add another potential linked activity option.
Text options
Certificate can place saved information in the certificate. These appear as text. Remember, you can come back to certificate settings and change them until you get the printed certificate look that you want.
- Print Date - Yes or No
- Date Format - If yes, select the format from a pulldown list.
- Print Code - This is a unique code that is stored and can be used to verify a printed copy of the certificate against the electronic record.
- Print Grade - No or Print Course Grade
- Grade Format - If printing grade Percentage, Points or Letter
- Print Outcome - If outcome, select it.
- Print Credit Hours - Put the number of credit hours here (if any)
- Print Teacher Name(s) - No or Yes
- Custom Text - This is a text box which will appear under the signature area.
Design options
These settings control images that are can be part of your certificate. It is possible to change or add to the available images. This is done by adding the image to the correct folder in ../mod/certificate/pix. For example you can add more signatures, watermarks and seals which will automatically appear on a list for you to select.
- Certificate Type - The are 3 portrait or 3 landscape types to select. It is possible to make your own "type".
- Border Image - no or 2 different styles of Blue, Black, Brown, Green borders
- Border Lines - no or a simple line in Blue, Black, Brown, or Green
- Watermark Image - no or 2 standard images that appear behind the text and other images
- Signature Image - no, or a straight line (to hand sign) or an image of a signature. The signature block apears on the lower left.
- Seal or Logo Image - no or a choice of 5 stock seals that appear on the lower right
Common module settings
These are standard Moodle module settings. See Common module settings
Tips & Tricks
Certificate icon location
If you are using your own theme you have to put the icon.gif inside a folder called certificate and put in your mod folder image. For example, if your theme uses custom icons, you must put a certificate folder with the certificate icon.gif in it under your theme/pix/mod folder.
Lesson dependency trick 1
The best trick to enable a conditional certificate is to upgrade to Moodle 1.9 and use the new Certificate version. The 1.9 Certificate allows the teacher to set a dependency on different activities.
Many Moodlers issue a certificate upon successful completion of a course. For those who use Questions in a Lesson to determine if a student can receive a certificate, here is one way to hide the certificate until the student passes. At the end of a lesson we will provide the student an option to select a link that will print a hidden certificate activity. The only non standard Moodle feature this uses is the Certificate module itself. Lesson dependency is available from 1.6 onward.
- Create a Certificate activity. Hide it.
- Create a lesson. We will call it "Certificate Qualification". This is the lesson that needs to be passed to get a certificate. We might add questions to this lesson as a means to automatically determine that student qualifies for a certificate.
- Create another lesson. We will call it "Certificate Gateway". In lesson settings make it dependent upon the "Certificate Qualification". For example we might say a student must answer 80% of the questions correctly. Still in lesson setting go to the link to activity setting and link it to Certificate.
Student view of the above example. The student will see a course with 2 lessons. If they try to enter the Certificate Gateway Lesson, first, they will be told that they must pass the Certificate Qualification Lesson with a score of 80% or higher. When the student takes the Certificate Qualification Lesson and only scores 70%, they will not be able to take the Certificate Gateway Lesson. The only way they can get to the certificate is to qualify to take the Certificate Gateway Lesson.
Important Note: For this trick to work you must have Show Grades set to Yes in the Course settings page or this trick won't work (and you'll get very frustrated wondering why :) )
The certificate code is located in the /mod/certificate folder. In 1.9 there are sub-folders for db, lang (holds language sub-folders), pix (holds sub-folders for borders, seals, signatures and watermarks) and type (holds 6 standard certificate types, each in their own sub-folder).
Adding images
Make sure your new files are the same size as the standard images. For example, the standard signature file is 150x31 pixels. If the signature file is a different size, you may need to modify the code line. The same will be true for seals, borders and watermarks.
In the creative example, a custom border, watermark, signature and seal were added to the right folders. All were sized and in the same file format as the one supplied with the initial certificate install.
Customize format
It is a good idea to create your own custom certificate type, that will appear on a list along with the standard certificates types. You will know which is your custom certificate type and it will survive when you upgrade. Here is how:
1. Choose the certificate/type folder with the size/orientation you desire, copy and paste it in the certificate/type folder and give the copied folder a new name. For example copy the /type/letter_landscape folder and rename it 'mycertificate'.
2. Open the certificate/lang/en_utf8/certificate.php file and add the name of your new folder type. Following the above example, you would add:
- $string['typemycertificate'] = 'My New Certificate';
Now, when you add a certificate to a course, your new type should appear on the drop down list as "My New Certificate".
Modifing image position code example
Lets look at the signature code that is found in the letter_landscape type.
- print_signature($certificate->printsignature, $orientation, 110, 450, , );
Change it to:
- print_signature($certificate->printsignature, $orientation, 100, 435, 150, 75);
What happens?
- We moved the image top left corner from the 110 margin position to the left and the 100 position.
- We raised the image from the 450 line on the page up to the 435 line.
- We set the width and height of the image to 150 by 75 pixels.
The default seal code for letter_landscape is below. We could alter it's position.
- print_seal($certificate->printseal, $orientation, 590, 425, , );
Changing Printed Text
There are different lang strings in the certificate/lang/en_utf8/certificate.php file for each certificate type, so be sure to change the correct one for the type you are using (or create your own custom type--see above). For example, if you want to customize the text for the landscape type, you can change these lines in the above mentioned lang file:
- $string['titlelandscape'] = 'CERTIFICATE OF ACHIEVEMENT';
- $string['introlandscape'] = 'This is to certify that';
- $string['statementlandscape'] = 'has successfully completed the course';
- $string['statementlandscape'] = 'has successfully passed the final exam';
Adding a New Line of Text
1. Open the certificate/lang/en_utf8/certificate.php file and add your new lang string giving it a unique name, e.g.:
- $string['mynewtext'] = 'This is what I want to print on the certificate';
2. Open the file for your certificate type, e.g. certificate/type/mycertificate/certificate.php. At the bottom of the page below '// Add Text' is the code that prints--you guessed it--text on the certificate. Find the current line below which you would like your new text to be printed. For example, if you want your text to print below the course name, find the line:
- cert_printtext(170, 330, 'C', 'Helvetica', '', 20, utf8_decode($classname));
3. Add a new line below that to print your new text using the name you gave your new lang string like this:
- cert_printtext(170, 350, 'C', 'Helvetica', '', 20, utf8_decode(get_string('mynewtext', 'certificate')));
- note: Make sure you a string to the language file called mynewtext. The above line of code gets that string.
4. You can adjust the placement over from the left by increasing or decreasing the '170' number. You can adjust the placement down on the page by increasing or decreasing the '350' number. Changing 'C' to 'L' or 'R' will print on the left or right side. For different fonts, see the moodle/lib/fpdf font folder for non-unicode types, and the moodle/lib/tcpdf/fonts folder for unicode types, for available fonts. (NOTE: for unicode certificates, using more than one font is NOT recommended since the entire font gets embedded in the certificate--increasing the certificate file size.) In the after the font name, you can add 'B' for bold, 'I' for italic, or 'U' for underline. Changing the '10' number will change the font size.
- cert_printtext(170, 350, 'C', 'Times', , 10, utf8_decode($USER->idnumber));
5. You can add a hard coded line of text. For example, a signature title block line:
- cert_printtext(150, 490, 'L', 'Times', , 10, utf8_decode('Martin Dougiamas, Lead Developer'));
Add your string to the pdf image
You can add your own custom string to the pdf print section. We wanted to add "These Continuing Credits are from Our University" below the title of the course. We used the landscape certificate type.
We added the string to the language file.
- $string(ceusfromus) = 'These Continuing Credits are from Our University';
In the type folder's certificate.php file, in the PDF area near the end of the file, we put the following line:
- cert_printtext(170, 380, 'C', 'Helvetica', '', 16, utf8_decode (get_string('ceusfromus', 'certificate')));
Tips and Tricks
- Start with one of the existing certificate types, copy it and modify it.
- Try your customized code on a non production site, such as a local host.
- In Administration>>Server set debugging to maximum (to show any coding error messages).
- While you can leave a php file open in edit mode, you must save the file before your changes become active.
- Make code changes one at a time, test and then backup after each successful change. For example,after adding a new string to the certificate lang file), go to your course page and click on a certificate to see if it appears on the list.
- If you broke the code you may get a blank screen for a certificate.
- So it might be a good idea to make a backup of each successful change before starting the next change. For example, after the 3rd code change, save certificate.php as certificate3.txt.
See also
The links below will lead to the current download areas
- Moodle.org link Certificate at Modules and plugins
- Moodle.org link Certificate Sitewide Reports
- Moodle.org link Certificate Validation Block
- Using Moodle Certificate module forum
- Activity_Locking - a conditional dependency add-in
- Development of the certificate module
- Patch to enable linking to Face-to-Face contributed module.


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Just the other day I was wondering what ever happened to Sinbad (like seriously, publicly-on-record wondering about Sinbad), and today TMZ has answered my prayers. Though I have to admit, considering he came out with a comedy special called "Where You Been" three years ago, "what ever happened to Sinbad" probably isn't the most original thought I've ever had.
If you answered "bankrupt" or "in trouble with the tax man," congratulations, you're double right!
'90s comedian Sinbad claims he's broke as a joke … again — filing for bankruptcy for the second time since 2009.
Sinbad (real name David Adkins) filed for Chapter 13 bankruptcy last month, claiming he owes $10,991,715 in debt … and only has $131,000 in assets.
The 56-year-old comedian — famous for his roles in '90s movies like "Houseguest" and "Jingle All the Way" — says he owes $374,979 to American Express, $32,199 to Bank of America, and $2.3 million to the CA Franchise Tax Board.
"'90s comedian" is a doozy of a subtle diss. Brutal.
He also claims he owes $8.3 million to the IRS for taxes from 1998-2006, and admits he owes both state and federal taxes from 2009-2012.
According to the bankruptcy docs, Sinbad earns only $16,000 per month and can't afford to pay his bills.
$16,000 a month seems like an oddly-stable salary for a comedian. Does he have a regular gig we don't know about? Houseguest royalties? Or maybe that's just the stipend he gets from the government to continue being Sinbad? That seems like a fair amount for continued Sinbadry. I support Subsidies for Sinbadry.
But we haven't even gotten to my favorite part of every celebrity-bankrupcty-filing story: the listing of assets.
But the bright side, he's still got some possessions — a 2007 BMW 750i, a 2006 VW Beetle, a 2010 Ford F150, a 2010 Lincoln Navigator, $5,000 in home office equipment … and 200 copies of "Sinbad's Guide to Life" currently for sale on Amazon for $6.25 each. [TMZ]
Okay, so it's not quite Nic Cage's dinosaur skulls and snake venom, or Gary Busey's extensive collection of moccasins (I mean moccasins as in the shoes Indians wear, though I wouldn't be surprised if he also had the snakes – Gary Busey's the only guy where that's unclear). But listing unsold copies of your own book as assets in your bankruptcy filing is up there with "baby shoes, never worn" when it comes to the shortest sad stories.
I just hope this won't stop him from continuing to be Sinbad. Stay Sinbad, Sinbad. You are the best Sinbad.


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Freerice.com , the online game that allows players to improve their vocabulary while fighting global hunger by making donations to the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), has crossed another milestone this week as it reached one million registered players.
"When one million people each do their small part, the collective effect is beyond impressive – it's extraordinary," said Nancy Roman, WFP's Director of Communications, Public Policy and Private Partnerships.
On Freerice.com, players face increasingly difficult vocabulary questions and for every correct answer, they earn 10 grains of rice, which is donated to WFP and paid for by sponsored banners on the site.
The online game also allows players to choose from 45,000 questions in various subjects, including flags of the world and literature, and in six languages – English, French, Italian, Spanish, Chinese and Korean.
"Beyond the remarkable benefits for those most in need, this is a significant milestone for WFP in our mission to engage millions of people online in the fight against hunger," Ms. Roman added.
The game reaches an estimated 1.3 million players per month and has raised almost 100 billion grains of rice, enough to feed five million people for a day in countries in need of food aid.
"One of the most exciting things about Freerice is its global appeal," Ms. Roman continued. "Players from all over the world and from all walks of life are coming together to play for a cause."
Originally launched in English in 2007, Freerice.com had within a month raised enough rice to feed over 50,000 people for a day. It was also named one of the best charity sites of 2011 by Netted, the online publication of the Webbys – an international award honouring excellence on the Internet.
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Walking out of "Sherlock Holmes" last year, a viewer could be certain of two things: there would be a sequel and Professor Moriarty would be on the scene. Let the casting rumors begin!
Sure enough, a sequel was announced even before the original had completed its theatrical run. And now the rumors are swirling about the casting for Moriarty before Guy Ritchie and his team have finished the script.
When the first "Holmes" went into production, names like Pitt and Crowe were bandied about. Now it's Daniel Day-Lewis who is being mentioned by Super Hero Hype as a possibility. Of course they then go on to mention Sean Penn, Javier Bardem and Gary Oldman -- so at this point one of us might be up for the part.
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Day-Lewis would of course be a natural for the part, having shown a gift for protraying evil in films like "There Will Be Blood " and "Gangs of New York," that few actors working today can match. And the idea watching him match wits with Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law is enough to make any movie fan and all of Provincetown swoon.
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Current Research and Scholarly Interests My main research interest lies in the functional anatomy of the urogenital system particularly in the human. We are using numerous histochemical and immunocytochemical methods to establish the normal pattern and type of autonomic nerve which supply selected regions of the urogenital system including the urinary bladder, ureter and prostate.
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April 28 – May 9, 2018 Ayahuasca & San Pedro Shamanic Ceremony Retreat
April 28, 2018 @ 5:00 pm - May 9, 2018 @ 12:00 pm
Each of these 12-day shamanic ceremony retreats are an amazing adventure in consciousness, awakening, and healing, working with Ecuadorian shamans with the ancestral medicines Ayahuasca (feminine) and San Pedro (masculine). Incredible experiences take place for every person and the experiences become lifelong memories, not to mention all the new friends you make!
Each retreat is like a soul family that comes together for 12 days and goes through a transformation together. It is impossible not to be a changed person for the better when you leave Gaia Sagrada after one of these retreats. Treat yourself to an amazing experience!
To reserve your space, fill out a reservation form by coming to our page of dates, pick the date you want, click on Register Now, (https://gs.nfshost.com/reservations-booking/), and then we will send you a Paypal invoice that you can pay with either credit card or Paypal account, whichever you prefer. If you need another way to pay, simply mention it in the comments section at the end of the reservation form.
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Deal driven by 'once in a generation' opportunity
Accenture is buying ASM Research, a mid-sized government contractor with deep roots in the Army and in military health and Veterans Affairs.
An Accenture executive said the deal was driven by a desire for Accenture to bolster its federal health care practice. The addition of ASM "provides unique access points into the market," said Jim Traficant, who leads Accenture's military health business.
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but ASM is an employee-owned company with 480 employees. It was founded in 1975.
The company has customers in the Defense Department and VA, and while Accenture has an established government health care business, the acquisition will allow the company to bring more of its commercial health care work into the federal market, Traficant said.
"This is a once in a generation opportunity," Traficant said, as many health care organizations are looking to revamp their benefit delivery and back office systems.
Accenture is very active in the commercial market in electronic health information and leveraging the data in those systems into knowledge that can help clinicians and payers make better decisions.
Traficant called it "insight-driven health care."
Among the government contracts that ASM brings to Accenture is the $12 billion Veterans Affairs Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology program, known as T4. It is one of 14 primes on the contract, though VA is in the process of onboarding more.
According to Deltek's database, ASM has won about $10.3 million in task orders under T4 so far.
The T4 contract is an example of one of ASM's "unique access points," Traficant said.
"The Defense Department and VA comprise the second largest health system globally," he said. "And ASM is very active with both."
The company also isn't just a health IT provider. It works with the Army on force readiness and on a variety of training information systems and other human capital planning projects. Much of its work is in what Traficant described as "priority-spend areas for the government." In other words, areas that will continue to be funded even in the midst of budget cuts.
The acquisition will be completed after a regulatory review, and Traficant will become president of ASM Research, which will be a subsidiary of Accenture Federal. He'll retain his leadership role of Accenture's military health group as well.
ASM is being set up as a subsidiary instead of being folded into Accenture so the company can retain the value of its brand name, Traficant said.
Current Chairman and CEO Jeri Lassiter will remain with the company through the transition, and will then continue as a consultant. The rest of the ASM management team is expected to remain on board.
Lassiter has been with ASM for more than 30 years, according to her bio on the company webpage. She became CEO in 2001 when the company had 160 employees, and has led its growth to 480.
The investment bank KippsDeSanto was an advisor to ASM Research in the transaction.
Traficant said that ASM had been approached by interested suitors and decided to conduct a competitive process to find a buyer.
He declined to comment on the value of the transaction.
The acquisition of ASM is the first deal by Accenture Federal since 2007, when it acquired Gestalt and Maxim Systems, two defense consulting businesses.
Traficant said acquisitions remain part of Accenture's growth strategy, but only when "it better serves our clients."
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A Texas woman aiming for a pesky skunk that was feeding off cat food bowls outside her home wound up accidentally shooting her husband when the bullet ricocheted off the porch and struck him in the abdomen, a sheriff said.
The accident happened Sunday night at the family's home in a subdivision south of College Station, Texas, Brazos County Sheriff Christopher Kirk said.
"Apparently they feed their cats out of bowls outside the back of the porch. They had a skunk that had been coming up there feeding. They decided they wanted to dispatch that skunk," Kirk told NBC News on Tuesday.
The wife went out to retrieve her .45-caliber handgun, which was legally permitted, from her purse in an office in an attached garage. The husband stayed inside the home.
The wife shot at the skunk but missed. The bullet ricocheted off the porch, penetrated the back door of the home and struck her husband in the abdomen. The bullet did not damage any vital organs and wound up lodged in the hip area, the sheriff said.
The husband was airlifted to a hospital in Houston, where he was treated and released on Monday.
Kirk said investigators interviewed the husband and wife separately and their stories were consistent that the shooting was an unfortunate accident.
"She was very concerned about her husband and certainly having created that situation," the sheriff said of the wife.
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The couple's names were not released. Kirk said they were in their early 50s.
The couple's seven children were also in the home at the time but none witnessed the accident and none were hurt, the sheriff said.
Kirk said investigators will present their findings to the prosecutor to see if any laws were broken.
"Discharging a firearm in that situation was probably not good judgment," Kirk said. "It certainly was reckless but I don't know if anyone would be served if any charges were to be filed."
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Kirk said even the skunk cooperated with the investigation.
"He actually came back while our investigators were at the scene and tried to feed again off the cat bowls. We chased it off," he said.
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Whew! Looks like Spring has finally arrived! What a great time of the year to get outside and Get Moving!
Whether you like to hop, jump, skip, kick a ball, ride a bike, or do some yoga, there are a lot of ways to exercise for fun - and we have a lot of books with great tips on how to keep your body fit and strong. Did you know that in addition to keeping your heart and muscles strong physical activity can also keep your brain strong?
Find out more about how staying physically active can give your brain a boost at our new Get Reading, Get Moving website. Watch for more information coming soon about how we're going to Get Reading and Get Moving as part of our Summer Reading Program.
In the meantime, see if you can stand on one leg and hold your arms together over your head in a "tree pose." The book My Daddy is a Pretzel: Yoga for Parents and Kids, can show you how this and other empowering yoga poses are done. This book is recommended for children in preschool through grade 2, but kids and adults of all ages may enjoy trying out the yoga poses. Have fun!


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Route 125 in Lee re-opened after accident involving crane
Witness says car crossed line, collided with crane
The driver of a car involved in a head-on crash with a 50-ton crane was in critical condition Monday night at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Authorities said the force of the impact ripped the car apart. Witnesses said they were shocked to find that the man was still alive even though his green Subaru was barely recognizable. A family member said the driver is a father of three, who was on his way home to Dover.
Police said a witness told them that the crane was traveling north on Route 125 when a Subaru crossed the yellow line and collided with it head-on. The crane driver was not injured, authorities said.
An off-duty Dover firefighter/EMT was just a few cars behind the Subaru, and he did what he could to comfort the victim, who was pinned inside his mangled vehicle.
"(I) pretty much told him, 'helps on the way, stay calm and keep breathing,'" said Glen Camire.
Police said the driver of the Subaru suffered serious injuries, and a medical helicopter was on the way.
"I've heard car accidents before, I've never heard one like this before," said neighbor Craig Bingham. "Actually, somebody took the telephone pole down about nine months ago, and that shook the house. This one shook the house even worse."
Bingham said when he looked out his window, he saw the crane truck that had come to rest in a wooded area off the roadway, and he called 911. It wasn't until he got outside that he saw other witnesses rushing to the crumpled car up the street.
"To tell you the truth, after I saw the car, I really didn't want to go near it," he said. "It looked so horrendous. I just... I started praying for the guy."
Route 125 in Lee re-opened Monday night after being closed for several hours in the afternoon because of a crash involving a crane and a car. The road was closed between the Route 4 traffic circle and Stepping Stone Road until about 8:15 p.m.
The accident is still under investigation. There was no word on how long the road would remain closed.


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Northwestern Memorial Hospital ranked No. 10 in an annual list of the best hospitals in the nation, as compiled by U.S. News and World Report.
The rankings cover nearly 5,000 medical centers nationwide. Scoring takes death rates and patient safety in account. The top spot in the list went to Mayo Clinic, with 29 points. Northwestern earned 13, right below Brigham and Women's Hospital, which had 15.
Northwestern, an 885-bed hospital with more than 51,000 admissions, said in a statement it was grateful of the recognition and proud of its physicians, nurses and staff.
By specialty, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago ranked number one, Followed by Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation in New Jersey and TIRR Memorial Hermann in Houston.
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Locally, Northwestern also earned the top spot among Illinois hospitals, followed by Rush University Medical Center and Advocate Christ Medical Center.
Top 10 hospitals in the U.S. News & World Report ranking:
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota
- Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston
- Johns Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore
- Cleveland Clinic
- UCLA Medical Center, Los Angeles
- New York-Presbyterian University Hospital of Columbia and Cornell, New York
- Hospitals of the University of Pennsylvania-Penn Presbyterian, Philadelphia
- UCSF Medical Center, San Francisco
- Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
10 Illinois Hospitals in the top Top 10
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago
- Rush University Medical Center, Chicago
- Advocate Christ Medical Center, Oak Lawn
- Loyola University Medical Center, Maywood
- St. Alexius Medical Center, Hoffman Estates
- University of Chicago Medical Center, Chicago
- Advocate Lutheran General Hospital, Park Ridge (tied for 7th)
- Alexian Brothers Medical Center, Elk Grove Village (tied for 7th)
- Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago (tied for 7th)
- Cadence Health-Central DuPage Hospital, Winfield (tied for 9th)
- NorthShore Evanston Hospital, Evanston (tied for 9th)


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Contest-Winning Old-Fashioned Pot Roast
Every time I fix this recipe for friends, it's asked for - and usually by the husbands! As a new mom (Mike and I are the parents of a 9-month-old son) who works full-time, I also like how easy it is to prepare. It's one of our favorites. Some people I've shared the recipe with have used a beef brisket in place of the regular roast. For a bit different taste, I at times add red wine vinegar. My mom started me cooking young. I made my first from-scratch Thanksgiving dinner at 13. After that, I figured I could tackle about any cooking! -Georgia Edgington, Crystal, Minnesota
Total TimePrep: 15 min. Bake: 3 hours
Makes8 servings
- 1 beef eye round roast (3 to 4 pounds)
- 1 bottle (12 ounces) chili sauce
- 1 cup water
- 1 envelope onion soup mix
- 4 medium potatoes, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 5 medium carrots, cut into 1-inch pieces
- 2 celery ribs, cut into 1-inch pieces
- Place roast in an ungreased roasting pan. Combine the chili sauce, water and onion soup mix; pour over roast. Cover and bake at 350° for 2 hours.
- Cut roast into 1/2-in. slices; return to pan. Top with the potatoes, carrots and celery. Cover and bake 1 hour longer or until meat and vegetables are tender, stirring the vegetables once.
Nutrition Facts1 each: 338 calories, 6g fat (2g saturated fat), 78mg cholesterol, 982mg sodium, 36g carbohydrate (12g sugars, 3g fiber), 36g protein.
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Jan 7, 2016
Very tasty easy to prepare one dish meal! The chili gives the roast a great flavor!
Jun 11, 2015
This was OK. The chili sauce definitely gives it a different flavor than other recipes for pot roast. My roast was over 3 pounds and 3 hours was way too long to cook it....it got extremely dried out. It was probably done at the 2 hour mark when I added the vegetables.
Oct 3, 2009
My whole family loves this recipe. We have it a couple times a month once fall and winter hit. The flavor is awesome and the leftovers reheat really well.Terri
Oct 8, 2008
Super simple and super yummy!


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The road to the Class 2A state championship game runs through the Patriot League again.
Thats no secret to the 11-0 Bayfield Wolverines, head coach Gary Heide or anyone else in the world of Colorado high school football.
The Wolverines, in fact, might be considered honorary members of the power conference when they take on Platte Valley (9-2) of the Patriot League this afternoon in Kersey in the 2012 Class 2A state semifinals.
The game will mark the fifth Bayfield playoff game against a Patriot League opponent in the last three years.
The Patriot League is an extremely strong league with a lot of football tradition, Heide said.
They have a series of great competitions with great coaches. Their regular-season games are like playoff games, he said with the Wolverines poised to take on the Patriot Leagues runner-up, the No. 7 seed in the CHSAA Class 2A Boys Football State Championships.
The Platte Valley Broncos avenged their regular-season loss (49-30) to league champ Eaton with a 23-21 playoff upset over the second-seeded Reds last weekend in an Eaton blizzard. Platte Valleys other loss this year came in the season opener at unbeaten No. 1 Kent Denver 46-14.
But after that loss, Broncos quarterback Logan Sitzman stepped in and led Platte Valley to nine wins in the next 10 games, including last weeks state-quarterfinal upset.
I think he is, by far, the best quarterback combination weve seen this year, Heide said of Sitzman, a 5-11, 145-pounder whos rushed for 1,301 yards and passed for 1,932 yards this season. Hes accounted for 39 touchdowns 20 passing and 19 rushing.
He can make something out of nothing. He runs the zone-read option, and he can ... just take off. Hes very quick, and hes going to be tough to contain, the first-year BHS head coach said.
They run a very wide-open offense, Heide said of the Broncos, who average 43 points a game. They scored at least 38 points in all nine victories this season.
That will be one of the keys to the game ... our ability to limit the number of big plays.
They are very physical on defense, Heide said.
Fourteen players on the Platte Valley roster are listed at 200 pounds or bigger, led by 6-3, 265-pound all-stater Raul Rios, one of the defensive leaders (10 tackles per game).
And they are playing with a lot of passion, he said of Platte Valleys emotional victory last week at rival Eaton that earned the Broncos a home date for todays semifinal against Bayfield, which enjoyed two consecutive home playoff games.
No. 4 Florence (10-1), the defending state champion, will play at No. 1 Kent Denver (11-0) in the other Class 2A state semifinal.
Platte Valley was able to capitalize on turnovers (last week). They were ready. They certainly know what to expect in big games, Heide said.
The Broncos can expect to see a Bayfield team coming off two pressure-packed playoff victories: last weekends tense 18-13 win over Faith Christian, and a week earlier, the Wolverines survived another tight test in a 21-12 win over Trinidad with the help of an opportunistic defense and key turnovers.
The Wolverines will offer their familiar triple-option look on offense against the Broncos, led by 1,200-yard rusher TJ Pazell.
Starting quarterback Matthew Knickerbocker is expected back in the lineup after missing most of last weeks game when he fell ill after scoring Bayfields first touchdown against Faith Christian.
Allec Rodriguez stepped in at quarterback and threw a key touchdown pass to Colton McMenimen to help the Wolverines advance to the state semifinals for the second consecutive year.
Drake Rhodes, moving from his regular split end job, scored a touchdown as a slotback last week after taking a pitch from Rodriguez to extend Bayfields winning streak to 11 in a row.
The Wolverines have won 23 of their last 24 games.
In 2011, the Wolverines ran the gauntlet of three consecutive Patriot League playoff teams to reach the state championship game. Bayfield beat, in order, Strasburg, Eaton and Brush (at Brush).
To play in the 2012 state championship game, the Wolverines will have to clear one more Patriot League hurdle.
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Data types we will host include many different types, including my favorite metabolomics. Don't ask me what this will practically mean, but some keywords we already know include RDF, OpenTox, and ToxML. With metabolomics, I hope to squeeze in metabolomics.
And that data warehousing for metabolomics is important was only recently shown be the retraction (via RetractionWatch) of this Nature paper (doi:10.1038/nature03356). The reason was that it critically depended on conclusions from another retracted paper (doi:10.1021/jf021166h), from J. Agric. Food Chem. in 2009.
In this paper, they identified ten chemicals from arabidopsis: butanoic acid; trans-cinnamic acid; o-coumaric acid; p-coumaric acid; ferulic acid; p-hydroxybenzamide; methyl p-hydroxybenzoate; 3-indolepropanoic acid; syringic acid; and, vanillic acid. I hope I have the links to Wikipedia correct, as this was based on names only, as the paper does not seem to list InChIs or even SMILESes. The ten chemical were identified with HPLC and NMR. No experimental data seems to be given. What NMR data did they base the identification on? I have seen pretty interesting assignments of chemical identity in GC/MS and LC/MS, so was quite disappointed to not see the gory details here.
But fortunately, I could look at the raw data. Yeah, sure! Dream on.
In fact, it seems the characterizations of the 10 chemicals was challenged, causing the authors to look again at their data. Unfortunately, they could not find experimental data anymore. The authors write in the retraction:
- We have been unable to find experimental data that document the actual isolation of butanoic acid, trans-cinnamic acid, ...
I am not sure we will see the bottom of this, and see if the authors could have prevented this retraction. However, I do believe the paper was flawed in the first place: it did not give experimental detail allowing the referees to judge the metabolite identification. The referees failed, as the apparently did not find this aspect important enough to have this data in the paper. And, the journal failed clearly, by not having a good editorial requirement in place around availability of data. This is not specific to this retracted paper, nor of this journal. It's pretty much the community standard, despite many calling for years for better standards, e.g. via minimal reporting standards.
Well, maybe journal editors will soon wake up, and make availability of experimental data in papers of this kind (and any type, IMHO) a community standard, and strong standard, such strong that referees can reject papers of papers do not provide this minimal information.
Why? It would have saved a lot of people from doing the wrong thing. The original paper was cited 54 times (according to WoS) and the Nature paper 52 times (up one since the RetractionWatch post). We're bound to see a few more retractions as a result of this, I guess.
So, where I failed to get MetWare going within the Netherlands Metabolomics Center, let's hope ToxBank does better. But given the list of ToxBank partners, I have no doubt about that.
Bais, H., Prithiviraj, B., Jha, A., Ausubel, F., & Vivanco, J. (2005). Mediation of pathogen resistance by exudation of antimicrobials from roots Nature, 434 (7030), 217-221 DOI: 10.1038/nature03356
Walker, T., Bais, H., Halligan, K., Stermitz, F., & Vivanco, J. (2003). Metabolic Profiling of Root Exudates of Arabidopsis thaliana, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, 51 (9), 2548-2554 DOI: 10.1021/jf021166h


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Bone (1972)
Replace the repressed white male anger of Fight Club with that of the repressed white housewife's in order to explore the terrain of Jungle Fever and you get the gist of writer/director Larry Cohen's debut. Instead of fitting squarely within the genre of blaxploitation, the film examines some of the stereotypical representations of the black male which helped make the genre possible to begin with.
Bernadette (Van Patten) is a bored Beverly Hills wife who lounges by the pool when she's not spending her husband's money. Her husband, Bill (Duggan), is the prototypical American salesman who's invested so much of his life in the manufactured desires of advertising that he no longer remembers if there's anything real behind the imagery. (We see him dreaming of selling junkyard cars filled with bloody corpses.) As George Costanza said, "it's not a lie, if you believe it."Continue Reading


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YüKSEL, S. et al. Feed efficiency and carcass and meat quality characteristics of bulls finished on diets containing varied proportions of wheat straw and wet sugar beet pulp. S. Afr. j. anim. sci. [online]. 2009, vol.39, n.4, pp.313-320. ISSN 2221-4062.
Fifteen young Holstein Friesian bulls (18 mo of age) were divided into three groups of five. All groups were fed a diet consisting of 60% concentrate and 40% roughage. The control (C) group received a mixture of dry meadow hay, dry lucerne and wheat straw as roughage. The second and third treatment groups were fed a similar mixture of roughage partially substituting wheat straw with wet sugar beet pulp (SBP) at levels of 4% and 8% on a dry matter (DM) basis, respectively. Dry matter intake and feed efficiency ratio (kg DM intake/kg weight gain) of the C group were significantly higher than those of the 4% SBP and 8% SBP groups. Slaughter and carcass traits indicated that there were no significant differences between dietary treatments. The inclusion of 8% SBP significantly improved panel ratings for tenderness, juiciness, beef flavour intensity and general acceptance, as well as number of chews before swallowing and the Warner Bratzler Shear value. Proximate analysis of the meat did not demonstrate differences between meat from the bulls fed C and the SBP diets. It was concluded that wheat straw could be replaced by 8% SBP in the finishing diet for young Holstein Friesian bulls in order to improve feed efficiency and sensory quality characteristics of their meat.
Keywords : Sugar beet pulp; finishing; Holstein Friesian bulls; carcass; meat quality.


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Gingrich Speech Canceled Due to Possible Conflict of Interest
The Basilica of St. John in Des Moines, Iowa, canceled a May 16 presentation by Newt Gingrich and his wife, Callista, about Pope John Paul II, according to a local media report.
Basilica officials canceled the event because the former speaker of the house is considering a run for the presidency and they believed his speech could have been considered a conflict of interest, according to the Des Moines Register.
Last year, he went to Poland to co-produce a documentary about the pope called "Nine Days that Changed the World." Gingrich converted to Catholicism in 2009 after spending most of his life as a Southern Baptist.
He has been attending Mass over the past 15 years to watch his wife sing as a choir member of the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C., and he says that, combined with several other factors, led to his gradual conversion to Catholicism.
"I am often asked when I chose to become Catholic," Gingrich said in an article entitled "Why I Became Catholic" in the National Catholic Register. "However, it is more truthful to say that over the course of several years I gradually became Catholic and then decided one day to accept the faith I had already come to embrace."
In the article, Gingrich said he visited Rome with his wife in 2005, which made an impact on him, and he pointed to two books that influenced him as well.
"At the same time, I was being influenced by several books I was reading, including George Weigel's The Cube and the Cathedral, about the crisis of secularism in Europe, and his book The Final Revolution, about the role of Christianity in freeing Eastern Europe from an atheistic dictatorship."
"Nine Days that Changed the World" flowed from Gingrich's conversion, especially given that Callista's father's family is from Poland. The documentary is about Pope John Paul II's nine-day trip in June of 1979 to Poland, which at the time was a Communist-ruled country.
"He re-engaged the Poles with their Polish culture," Callista said last month on the Fox News television program On the Record. "They have a very rich heritage and he made them feel good about being Polish again. He also reconnected them to the Catholic Church. And through doing these two things, he gave them the courage to stand up and fight the Soviet dictatorship."
The first 2012 Republican Party presidential debate is scheduled for Thursday in South Carolina. Gingrich planned to attend, but a Fox News blog says he has indicated he will not have the Federal Election Commission paperwork filed in time.


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110th Annual Conference
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PAMLA 2012 will take place in two locations. Sessions on Friday, October 19, will be held at the conference hotel, the Renaissance Hotel Seattle, with the exception of the Creative Artist Spotlight with Sandra Cisneros, which will be held at Seattle University. Sessions on Saturday, October 20, and Sunday, October 21, will be held at Seattle University.
Conference participants may check in and pick up their nametag and conference program on Friday, October 19, at the Renaissance Hotel Seattle, in the Compass Foyer (3rd floor). On Saturday and Sunday, October 20-21, participants may check in at Seattle University's Pigott Building, in the Pigott Atrium.
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Minerals are part of virtually every product we use. Common examples include copper used in electrical wiring and titanium used to make airplane frames and paint pigments. The Information Age has ushered in a number of new mineral uses in a number of products including cell phones (e.g., tantalum) and liquid crystal displays (e.g., indium). For some minerals, such as the platinum group metals used to make cataytic converters in cars, there is no substitute. If the supply of any given mineral were to become restricted, consumers and sectors of the U.S. economy could be significantly affected. Risks to minerals supplies can include a sudden increase in demand or the possibility that natural ores can be exhausted or become too difficult to extract. Minerals are more vulnerable to supply restrictions if they come from a limited number of mines, mining companies, or nations. Baseline information on minerals is currently collected at the federal level, but no established methodology has existed to identify potentially critical minerals. This book develops such a methodology and suggests an enhanced federal initiative to collect and analyze the additional data needed to support this type of tool.


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Man cleared in Durham police officer's shooting
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DURHAM, N.C. — A Durham man was acquitted Friday of shooting a police officer three years ago, with jurors convicting him only of common law robbery in the case.
Officer Kelly Stewart was shot in the thigh during a confrontation with Carlos Antonio Riley Jr. following a December 2012 traffic stop. Stewart testified that Riley was being uncooperative and shot him after the two got into a fist fight. But Riley's defense attorney insisted that Stewart accidentally shot himself with his own gun during the struggle.
"I believed this was going to happen. My faith, my faith, my faith and prayer. Prayers going up, and prayers come down," a relieved Patricia Riley, Riley's grandmother, said after the verdict was announced.
"The truth always prevails over all things," said Riley's mother, Karen Judd. "My son always has to be honest. I taught him that. I taught him to treat people in a humane way. During this trial, they were trying to portray him as a vicious criminal."
Stewart was unavailable for comment Friday, and Police Chief Jose Lopez expressed disappointment in the outcome. (more…)


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Putting Heads Together
Jared Berent, Media Producer
Although previously referred to as "Magdalenian Girl," Field Museum Curator of Biological Anthropology, Dr. Robert Martin, has established that this specimen was likely an adult woman. Found in a cave in France in 1911, many myths and legends have been built around the story of Magdalenian Woman. One thing we do know for sure is that in 1926, Henry Field purchased the skeleton in New York City, packed it in his suitcase and returned to Chicago on a train. Since then the Field Museum has continued to learn new things about Magdalenian Woman, human culture and the world in which we live.


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Understanding Youth Violence and Victimization: Implications for Social Work Practice (2 CEUs)
Youth violence is a serious social and public health concern, and numerous studies have documented risk factors associated with youth's exposure to and experiences in violence occurring in multiple contexts. The aim of this CEU class is to enhance social work practitioners' understanding of youth violence and how various type of violence impact children and adolescents. The major focus will be on child maltreatment, school bullying and victimization, and juvenile justice involvement. We will explore the associated risk factors and outcomes, particularly among diverse children and adolescents (i.e., racial/ethnic minorities, immigrants, LGBTQ, special education, etc.) and the strengths and drawbacks of the current programs and policies.
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To highlight the importance of understanding whether routine activities theory helps to explain school-based victimization across urban, rural, and suburban school contexts.
To highlight the importance of understanding factors that potentially explain why children who are maltreated at home are likely to be involved in bullying and victimization in school, and to explore factors that disrupt the pathway from maltreatment to bullying involvement.
To investigate factors that are related to the likelihood of re-arrest among youth involved in the juvenile justice system and to highlight the importance of residential treatment centers.
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Farmers drive into the local-food markets around Charlotte from west, east, north and south, and they're usually driving very early, when the weather is the coldest. On top of that. nasty weather on a Friday can sometimes make it tough to pick fresh for Saturday. So here's what I've heard so far about market plans for the icy weekend:
- The Matthews Community Farmers Market will be closed Saturday. They'll open Feb. 2 instead.
- The Atherton Market has postponed the Friday afternoon class on Bone Broth until next Friday. But the market is open today although it may close early. It will be open Saturday but may open an hour later. Manager Lynn Caldwell says she'll put an update on the market's Facebook page as soon as she hears what farmers want to do, so check there before you head out in the morning.
- The Charlotte Regional Farmers Market is open on Friday as usual and plans to be open Saturday. Manager Arlene Haigler says she's planning to stay overnight, rather than drive in from Union County, just to make sure. "Right now, we're going to try to open. Now, that could change." If you need to check, call her office at 704-357-1269.
- The Davidson Market is normally closed this weekend on its winter schedule.
If you hear anything more about market schedules, email me at firstname.lastname@example.com, or give me a call at 704-358-5236.


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Barron's Bounce: CSX Can Start Chugging
Jack Otter and Sam Mamudi look at the opportunity in CSX and Wendy's shares, and also concerns about VMware stock.
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Hi to all.I tried these cookies for kids as they begin their '79 days' of vacation :)
I had bookmarked these crisp beauties long back, from Dyann Bakes.
Checkered / Checkerboard Cookies
|Baked n bit successful in checks :)
This is a combination of Vanilla Shortbread and Chocolate Shortbread, which gives a wonderful output, pleasing to eyes and our palettes of course!!
Ingredients for Vanilla Shortbread :
150 gms butter softened
1/3 C granulated sugar
1 Tablespoon (right not tsp) Vanilla essence
1 large egg yolk
1 1/2 C APF (maida)
Method :
In a bowl, beat butter and sugar till fluffy. Tip in yolk and vanilla essence, beat well. Add flour in tiny lots and beat till combined. Turn out and knead on a flat surface, pat to a rectangular block, cling wrap and refigerate for 1/2 an hour.
Ingredients for Chocolate Shortbread :
100 gms unsalted butter softened
1/2 C granulated sugar
1 tsp Vanilla essence
1 large egg1 1/2 C APF (maida)1/2 t baking soda
1/3 C cocoa powder (best quality)
1/8th tsp salt
Method :
Sift flour, baking soda, cocoa powder and salt together and set aside.
Beat butter and sugar, add egg and vanilla essence, beat well. Add the flour-cocoa mixture in divided lots, till combined. Turn it out on a flat surface, knead well, make a same sized rectangular block, cling wrap and refrigerate for 1/2 an hour.
The egg white from 1st set of ingredients can be used as egg wash during assembling.
Please watch Dyann's video for accurate idea of assembling or layering this.
Assembling :
Once done, preheat oven at 170C. Lay a cookie sheet with parchment, place cookies one inches apart from each other and bake for 10-11 mins till we get lightly golden edges. Cool on wire racks, place in airtight containers, enjoy!! Makes manyyy cookies depends on how you cut it, I have kept the remaining two logs in cling wrap, refrigerated, got 48 cookies from remaining dough! :)
Enjoy with tea/coffee or simply snack on them !!
Coming up next, is a light crumb cake, very moist. Uses sliced glaze cherries. Family and Friends liked it alike.
The recipe's from Tasty Food Lovers.
Cherry Cake
Ingredients :
150 gms + 1 Tbsp All Purpose Flour (maida)
150 gms unsalted butter-softened
150 gms caster sugar
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 eggs
1 tsp vanilla essence
50 gm almond -ground
6 tbsp glaze cherries (multicolor would do, I chose red)
Method :
Preheat the oven to 180C. Line and grease a loaf pan.
Sieve 150 gms of flour and baking powder. Set aside. In another small bowl, mix 1 Tbsp flour to sliced glazed cherries and set aside.
In a medium bowl, beat the butter and sugar, till fluffy. Add one egg at a time and beat well after each addition. Add the vanilla essence. Now fold the flour, gently in lots till combined. Mix in the cherry-flour mix and lastly combine the ground almond. Pour this mix into a prepared loaf pan and bake @180C/40-45 minutes.
Cool on rack and slice it. Store in an airtight container.